Experience and dedication
Mike Satterthwaite - Chairman
Mike joined as Chairman of the Pegasus Board in 2009, bringing extensive industry, business and management experience to the company.
Graduating from the University of Bristol with a BSc in physics, Mike then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse London before transferring to Price Waterhouse Sydney. For the next 27 years Mike worked in the advertising industry, most recently at Saatchi & Saatchi CFO, Asia Pacific.
Mike first met the Pegasus team when Saatchi & Saatchi chose Pegasus for its Australian operations 20 years ago.
"Joining the Pegasus Board was an easy decision as I've always admired the service and integrity of the team. The Pegasus product is loved by all its clients and the company has some new, leading-edge software that agency CFOs have had on their wish list for years".
Les Parry - Managing Director
Les joined Pegasus as Managing Director in 2005 after realising the potential of the product and the depth of its functionality.
A qualified management accountant, Les trained in the UK where he held a variety of roles, including CFO of Chrysler Jeep UK. After rolling out a national systems implementation for the Jeep Network in 1999 Les became increasingly interested in systems development. He moved to Australia, working with the Chrysler installation software provider that specialised in IBM AS400 development (the same as Pegasus).
Returning to management accounting in 2002, Les worked for a small group of advertising agencies before establishing a CFO consultancy for growing agencies, including: Onedigtal, 5th Finger and Host.
Les was introduced to Pegasus as a client in 2004, and his appointment as Managing Director saw the start of greater expansion for the company beyond New Zealand. Les has been involved in over 25 Australian installations and managed Pegasus conversions for Leo Burnett, Starcom, Arc Worldwide and ZenithOptimedia in Singapore, Ace Saatchi & Saatchi in the Philippines, M&C Saatchi in Malaysia and most recently McCann Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.
Neville Miller - Regional Sales Director Asia Pacific
Neville has held a number of management and finance roles in manufacturing, accounting, post-production and advertising. He gained his Agency experience working for nine years as the CFO of DDB New Zealand.
Neville joined Pegasus in August 2005, and was appointed General Manager of New Zealand operations in March 2006. In October 2009, Neville's role was expanded to Regional Sales Director Asia Pacific.
Sally Lloyd - Client Services Director
Sally spent the first ten years of her career in chartered accountancy where she obtained a broad experience of management accounting, auditing, systems review and taxation and while studying part-time for an accounting degree.
Sally later joined a small advertising agency as the Finance/Admin/HR/IT Manager, she then moved into a multi-national agency group working across various agencies within the group including Media, PR, Marketing, Retail and Brand. Eventually Sally was promoted to Finance Director of the New Zealand Group.
Sally became Client Services Manager of Pegasus in 2008.
Robert Mitchell - Development Director
Robert graduated from Victoria University with a BSc in computer science and began working with Pegasus in 1991. After being involved with a complete code rewrite of Pegasus for the IBM Power Series Robert left the company to take up the role of Development Manager at Jaques Martin for five years and later spent four years in London working on development projects in the financial services sector. On his return to New Zealand in 2004, Robert rejoined Pegasus and commenced a major enhancement program - the Pegasus Workbook. The Pegasus Workbook has revolutionised the way agencies use and integrate internal systems.
Allan Tarrant
Allan has worked in the Industry for more than 28 years, initially as an accountant for Ogilvy & Mather, after which Allan installed and supported finance systems into all the multi-national agencies and many more local agencies.
Using his extensive knowledge of the industry, and understanding of Agency requirements, Allan joined Pegasus in July 2011, and has a dual role of assisting in the promotion and development of the system for the Australian market, demonstrating why Pegasus is emerging as the system of choice for leading Agencies, and also providing Client Service Management to the growing list of Australian clients.
Karen Dailly - Account Manager
Initially working in the banking industry specifying, installing and training POS teller equipment, Karen discovered the world of Advertising in 1991.
Having previously worked in a media buying house, full service agency, multinational agency and with an advertising agency software developer, Karen has always had a keen interest in how software systems work and how they can be improved to benefit the "users".
Joining Pegasus Systems in October 2011, as an Account Manager, Karen's unique experience gives her a clear understanding of the requirements from the agency's perspective and how advertising software should work in this demanding, fast paced industry.
Flora Milessis - Account Manager
Flora started her career in Advertising as a media payables reconciler, working her way to a media finance manager.
From there she joined a multinational IT company specialising in media software systems, where she was involved in the design, testing and implementation of the product into then, major multinational media agencies.
It was during this time, Flora's role of supporting systems flourished, but after a few years she also realised she missed working on the agency side of the business, so moved back to agencies and spent the intervening years expanding her knowledge in the production/finance area, in most of the largest multinational agencies.
Flora joined Pegasus in December 2011, as an Account Manager. Flora's extensive experience in media and production finance across the industry will allow her to provide a high level of support to the ever expanding Pegasus client base.